Name: Juliet Davis
Nationality: USA

www.julietdavis.com/studio/altar-ations
Title: Altar-ations
Year: 2006

Biography: Juliet Davis (Assistant Professor of Communication, the University of Tampa) is an artist and writer in the field of new media, teaching theory and practice in interactive media, visual culture, and media writing, with particular interest in cyberfeminism (and, more generally, intersections of gender, identity, and technology). Davis is currently writing a book called Exploring Writing for New Media (Publisher: Thomson Delmar) and was recently awarded the "Born Digital Award" presented by the Institute for the Future of the Book (hosted by the University of Southern California‚s Annenberg Center for Communication, also funded by Columbia University, The Macarthur Foundation, and The Mellon Foundation).

Her work has exhibited at the Web Biennial (Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum), FILE (Electronic International Festival in Sao Paulo), the The Tampa Museum of Art, Iowa Review Web, and many other venues.

Synopsis: "Altar-ations" appears to be a wedding planner gone-awry, to question who is really in control of a woman's self-image and gender construction. The project includes excerpts from interviews with young people contemplating marriage, sexuality, and reproductive technologies.

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Name: UBERMORGEN.COM feat. Alessandro Ludovico vs. Paolo Cirio
Nationality: Austria

www.gwei.org
Title: GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself
Year: 2005

Biography: UBERMORGEN.COM is an artist group created in Vienna, Austria in 1999 by lizvlx & Hans Bernhard [founder of etoy / etoy.CORPORATION]. Behind UBERMORGEN.COM we can find one of the most uncatchable identities - controversial and iconoclast - of the contemporary european techno-fineart avantgarde. ubermorgen is a german word for "super-tomorrow".

Synopsis: We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself - but in the end "we" own it! By establishing this model we deconstruct the new global advertisment mechanisms by rendering them into a surreal click-based economic model. Google Will Eat Itself has been exhibited in Galleries and Museums around the globe (The Premiese Gallery Johannesburg, Neurotitan Gallery Berlin, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo). Upcoming shows: Transmediale 06 Berlin, Overgaden Contemporary Art Institute Copenhagen, Hartware HMVK Dortmund, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, New Museum New York.

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Name: Alexander "Satim" Timofeev
Nationality: Russian federation

www.toondra.ru/flash/skafandr.htm
Title: Skafandr
Year: 2005

Biography: Alexander "Satim" Timofeev Was born in 19.04.1977 in Saint-Petersburg (Russia). Designer, animator, digital-artist. The art-director of TOONDRA animation studio. Portfolio: www.satim.pp.ru www.toondra.ru Awards: Festival of Computer Art and Advertising ‘Gaura Days’, MACHINISTA 2004 International Festival, Multimatograf-2004 Festival, Festival of Computer Arts ‘Chaos Constructions-2004’, ‘Chaos Constructions-2005’ EGGSposition design action, "Russia as seen by young people", Animation Festival AVANCA-05

Synopsis: Skafandr music video This is music video for Skafandr (russian music group) music created by Skafandr design, animation, etc created by Alexander "Satim" Timofeev This work was designed in minimalism 2d-animation style (like logotypes or road sings). In this work I did'nt want to do cool 3d and video effects, smooth animation, etc... This work simple and elegant, as Skafandr music.

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Name: calin man
Nationality: Romania

revoltaire.net/jam
Title: jam pack
Year: 2005

Biography: b.: 1961; place of residence: Arad, Romania. education: B.A. in literature, Timisoara University, Romania; chief-editor and designer of intermedia magazine; member of kinema ikon group. works on cd-rom, net.art, hypermedia installation. participates on many international digital art exhibitions and festivals all over the world [selection]: 2005: Metanarrative(s)? Mediateca CaixaForum Barcelona; 2003: presentation, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The 50th Venice Biennale, Romanian pavilion, 2003 (artist and curator); Videobrasil, Sao Paulo; 2002: EMAF; FILE / Shared Work, Sao Paulo; 2001: 49th Venice Biennale, Romanian pavilion, context project; d>art01exhibition, Sydney; 2000: ISEA 2000 revelation, Forum des Images, Paris; VIPER, Basel; 1998: ISEA 98 revolution, Liverpool; 1997: OSTranenie, Bauhaus institute, Dessau; 1995: retrospect kinema ikon, Centre Georges Pompidou ;

1994: Sao Paulo Biennial. awards: 2005 Honorable mention _ project netarts.org 2005 by Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts Tokyo; Best Net Art Project Award, Prog:ME, 1st Festival of Electronic Media of Rio de Janeiro; 2002 The JavaArtist of the Year Award 2002; 2001 First place _ FILE [Festival internacional de linguagem eletronica], Sao Paulo; Recognition _ CYNETart, International Festival for computer-based Art in Dresden; 2000 Second prize _ INFOS 2000 (off-line) "net.art" contest, Ljubljana; Second place _ FILE [Festival internacional de linguagem eletronica], Sao Paulo; 1995 Prize of Municipality of Murska Sobota _ Biennial of Murska Sobota, Slovenia.

Synopsis: reVoltaire archive | net.art_kit [hosted at http://revoltaire.projects.v2.nl] is remixed by the author in a pataphysical way, in order to create a random browser called jam pack.

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Name: netzfunk.org
Nationality: Italy

Title: Historical memory of Alameda
Year: 2005

Biography: David Boardman is a designer and media artist coming from Italy. where he was born in 1978. He is a co-founder of netzfunk.org collective, an open network of dispersed artists sharing in common a subversive idea of art, and the hate for the multifarious mafias of art, culture, economy, armies and politics. The current expressive research lines are digital literature, robotics, meaning technologies, installation art and locative media. Between March and July 2005 he was invited in Santiago de Chile by visual arts department of Universidad de Chile to organize a PhD course "Una estetica para una tecnologia suave" - "Aesthetics for a delicate technology". During this experience he organized the locative media performance "Memoria Històrica de la Alameda", a collective artwork on Santiago's main boulevard Avenida Bernardo O'Higgins, commonly known as "Alameda", which was taken into consideration for his iconic nature of the Chilean social and politic history of the decades between the Allende's "Unidad Popular" and Pinochet's dictatorship. In september 2005 he presented "My favourite Abughraib links" warporn video at "The arts & politics of Netporn" conference in Amsterdam.

Synopsis: M.H.A. is an example of public and land art that exceed the terrestrial space connecting things and people with the panoptic and precise perspective of sidereal spaces. Contents included in M.H.A. were thought to achieve a poetic interpretation of the urban space, working as a consciousness catalysts of the historical, political and social dynamics forming the urban network. M.H.A. is a consciousness activator, allows the exploration of an augmented reality where the background of information and stimuli provided by the device, glimpses and original perspectives, juxtapose and mingle with the empirical common vision. Breaks down silences imposed by the amnesty of civil and political and by this also the general unconscious forbidding will is affected. It is art that shocks and calls for justice, justice for memory merged in those streets where high heels and briefcases would sweep up military jeep tyres, face-crushing soles and the painful noise of the tanks.

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Name: Kate Pullinger and babel
Nationality: Canada

www.inanimatealice.com/episode1
Title: Inanimate Alice, Episode 1: China
Year: 2005

www.inanimatealice.com/episode2
Title: Inanimate Alice, Episode 2: Italy
Year: 2006

Biographies:

Kate Pullinger is a canadian/british writer. Based in London, England, her most recent novel is A Little Stranger. From October 2006 she will teaching on a brand-new MA in Creative Writing and New Media that she has helped create at De Montfort University, Leicester.

babel is a british/canadian digital writer and artist. He has exhibited solo and collaborative work on and offline since 2002, and is editor of the post-dada magazine 391.org.

Synopsis: Inanimate Alice depicts the life of a young girl growing up in the early years of the 21st century, through her blog and episodic multimedia adventures that span her life from childhood through to her twenties. It has been created to help draw attention to the issue of Electro-sensitivity and the potentially harmful pollution resulting from wireless communications.

Awards: (Awards: Winner, Premio per l'arte digitale, Italian Ministry of Culture, Department for Cultural and Environmental Heritage, DARC (General Directorate for Contemporary Architecture and Art), MAXXI (National Museum for 21st Century Arts) and the Fondazione Rosselli, Italy (2/2006) •'Hall of Fame' finalist, 2006 Digital Media Awards, Dublin, Ireland (2/2006)

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Name: Catherine Ramus
Nationality: France

www.albertinemeunier.net/edison/
Title: Edison Mobile Remake, n°1 to n°5
Year: 2005

Biography: Multimedia artist Born in 1964 – French last works : Edison Mobile Remake - 2005 Digital Corner Street with Fred Forest Art Basle Miami Beach - 2005 A corps et à Christ – 2005 Counter Googling - 2004 Le Voyage Immobile - 2003

Synopsis: This project is in the move of artist ready made and movie remakes using new technologies. The main aspect of this project is to realize remakes of Edison movies using a cameraphone (a Nokia N90 mobile phone). It is in a way to come back to the very beginning of the cinema with this very new tool. Secondly, as a ready made, short Edison movies fit perfectly well on the new screen (the 4th screen) of a mobile phone. These movies have been made with a mobile phone, a N90 Nokia, and made for viewing on a mobile device. All the movies are available for the mobile format (3gp).

They can be seen at the following internet address : from a pc :
www.albertinemeunier.net/edison/
from a mobile (with internet access) : www.albertinemeunier.net/3gp
/edison.wml

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Name: Dmitry Bulnygin
Nationality: Russian Federation

Title: Fine correction
Year: 2005

Biography: Dmitry Bulnygin /db (1965) Graduated from Novosibirsk Architectural Institute (Russia) in 1990. Since that time up to date has been a freelance artist. db is developing a video genre, provisionally named experimental documentary. This technique is based on the “high degree editing” which is done to express artistic ideas on the raw material of documentary filming of every day life. He is author of more than 20 short films.

Synopsis: The method of "fine correction" could be a magic tool for defining of point of view.

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Name: Lycette Bros.
Nationality: Australia

www.lycettebros.com
Title: VideoTones
Year: 2005

Biography: Lycette Bros. John and Mark Lycette, formed Lycette Bros. in 1997, together they create a broad range of digital media including online interactive products, animations and installations. The Lycette Brothers work is widely regarded and continues to be exhibited and awarded around the world. With a design background, the brothers’ body of work changes to suit each project, while maintaining an attention to detail and craftsmanship, it has been said their work falls somewhere between art and design.

Synopsis: A great collection of mobile phone content ranging from looping animations, short narratives, animated series and interactive Flash Lite screensavers.

www.lycettebros.com
www.casulapowerhouse.com/
cybercultures/main.html

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Name: Kylie Robertson
Nationality: Australia

www.girlfriday.tv
Title: Girl Friday (GF)
Year: 2005

Biography: Kylie is an award-winning graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts School of Film & TV. Originally trained as a scientific photographer, Kylie progressed to international recognition as an interactive film maker, her graduate film ‘Silent Passages’ winning a spot at MILIA 2000 Cannes and festival screenings around the world.
She has finished stage one development of her pilot mobile series Girl Friday funded by the AFC, Film Victoria and Digital Pictures and is preparing stage two, production of a Public Pilot. She has also piloted an original concept, Jupiter Green, an interactive drama series in conjunction with the AFC and Sensis. She has also recently received funding for the development of an advanced pitch document for a pilot interactive series called Rock Chickz.
Kylie has lectured in photography, design and VFX for Darwin University’s department of Fine Arts, the VCA School of Film & TV and in 2006 will lecture at RMIT. Her industry experience also includes interactive and video design for clients such as Sass & Bide, Nike, The Melbourne F1 Grand Prix and local fashion designer, Gwendolynne.

Until December 2005, Kylie worked within the design team at Digital Pictures Interactive Melbourne, her role encompassing senior interactive design and studio management. Her work spanned both broadcast and interactive platforms and can be seen on DVD menus such as the Butterfly Effect, Whaler Rider, Oils on The Water, Kath & Kim, and Swimming Pool.
Kylie has recently partnered with Debra Allanson, ex CEO of Screen West in a new business venture called Ish Media. The business aims to serve as a bridge for the film and television industry to interactive narrative development and multiplatform entertainment.

Synopsis: Girl Friday is an online pilot for a live action interactive sitcom series for broadband and mobile platforms. The pilot was produced with the assistance of the Australian Film Commission, Film Victoria's Digital Media Fund and Digital Pictures Melbourne. The production assistance has enabled an online demonstration of the series to be built.
Girl Friday's life changes when she finds a mobile phone on a tram on the way to work. She soon becomes engaged in the mysterious life of the stranger's phone. All the while she has paper clip trouble at the office; is searching for the mother she never knew, and is clawing her way to the top of the local karaoke charts.

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FLAG METAMORPHOSES
www.thyes.com/flag-metamorphoses

A project by Myriam Thyes – Starts 2005
Continuously growing and animated by as many participating artists from across the globe as possible, the flags of all nations in the world will be morphed into each other through flash animation. - Using digital media, we can make the symbols dance: Between each two flags, scenes appear that show an aspect of the relations between the two countries. - This work is an exploration into the meaning of imagery on flags, aiming to create interrelated associations through questioning, reassessing, fluidizing and re-mixing of diverse national iconography. -

Flag animations

The flash animation scenes are presented in the Internet; the series will grow continuously with the addition of new scenes. This project is and will be shown in festivals and exhibitions as well.

Authors / participants so far include:
Myriam Thyes, Germany / Switzerland - Barry L. Roshto, USA / Germany - Norbert Francis Attard, Malta - Rona Innes, UK - Max Pohlenz, Germany - Peter Chanthanakone, Canada / USA - Genco Gülan, Turkey - Jorge Lara and Israel Reyna Tello, Mexico - Babel, Canada - Anke Landschreiber, Germany.

Get Involved
Flag Metamorphoses is continuously growing and looking for more flags. For information and technical specs on how to design and submit your own go to: www.thyes.com/flag-metamorphoses

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L'EMPIRE DES SIGNIFIANTS
www.vctokyo.org

A compilation from Videoart Center, Tokyo
Tokyo is the city of spectacle.   "Jeus des signifiants (plays of signifiants)" meets high technology and mikado-Emperor system, and they are creating a perfect numbness toward a new totalitarianism.   By spread of mobile phone, portable PC, and digital video, mass media make people terminal units and enslave them to representations even in the area life or mind. VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo has studied through their many workshops, from classical subjects of media theory like" What is Video? " to the present system and situation of information and society.The artists of "spectacle age" use video to break aesthetic limits of expression about mass media and structural reality, philosophy and politics. They don't belong to the well-known "Japanese contemporary " style, like Manga comics, Yakuza films, or recovery of self identity. .

Artists/Works:

TAKI Kentaro
Video Composition #2 " Stolen Air " - 5'

TAKI Kentaro
Media Cage - 7'

NKAMRA Akiko
Omedeto - 5'

HATTORI Katsuyuki
Study on Media " Education before education " 8'

KANIMAKI Kazumi
President - 11'

KAWAI Masayuki
a not = a or For Devatas Who Keep on Dancing " 15'30"

Download a full description of the program:
L'Empire des Signifiants

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FAST SHUFFLE
www.videotage.org.hk

A compilation from Videotage, Hong Kong

The Long March Framed
China Hong Kong Festival in 20 Years

FAST SHUFFLE

Roads and buildings, they are the intersection points of our daily visual experience in Hong Kong. In Fast Shuffle, we collect a number of videos which show how the flashes of city act as a cultural text, presenting the landscape of concrete jungle and cultural desert, speaking of an authentic identity in this artificial organism or living mechanism which we called home.

Download a full description of the program:
Fast Shuffle

Artists/Works:

Jamsen Law
Mapping Vapour - 10'26", 2002
Kwan Ng
Record Himself - 5', 2001
Li Hong Ting
Visible City - 5', 2004
Pun Tak Shu
Bombastic verses - 4', 2000
Mathias Woo
A very good City - 15', 1998
Reine Wong
Drifting Review - 1'57", 2005
Ernest Fung
On the road - 4', 1996
Stella So
Very Fantastic - 7'50", 2002
Lam Wai Kit
The Other - 1'42, 2003

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A compilation from La Sala Naranja, Spain

Marcela Jardón
Marcela Jardón has been a practising artist since 1980 and has worked on several media and techniques depending on the outcome of the project. She usually incorporates text as another element in the construction of the proposal and uses the titles of each artwork as an structural element that incorporate the written word (sometimes modifying the graphs) as a visual element. The work that she intends to research/investigate is the relation between the images and the language as a symbolic production, how they interact and modify the significant, generating new/other senses for each image, as well as for each concept.
Juan Rayos
An extensive gallery of video loops, are the starting point from which to build different visual structures non narratives that develop along the music, synchronizing or offering visual effects depending on the space and sound.
Lucía Gironés
Lucia works in the media of painting, collage, performance art, contemporary dance and video - or in a combination of all of them. The action of the body model a plastic discourse that relies upon camera angles, rhythm and the use of editing to deconstruct movement. The result is a certain tension: subject and artifice, tecnology and human sensibility. Moving in a space and time, the human body is shown reacting in a way that is entirely free of the impositions of narrative.
Empar Cubells
Empar Cubells produced this work in honour of Hannah Höch. In this work, she hits a drum kit of kitchen utensils. From this structure Empar Cubells has created an installation with video/audio in three acts.   According to the artist, Red feminine Pavilion is an acid critique of the division of the roles in our society, even in the whiteness of the 21 st century. As a way of proceeding, Empar Cubells winks at another work, works of other female/feminists video artists.   In this case it is the beginning of the work where a few horizontal bands squash the image successively.   A reference to the video Vertical Roll by Joan Jonas, where she examines the objectification of the female body.

Artists/Works:

Juan Rayos
Estorinos - 5'02"
Pulso - 4'41"
Jori Plas
Luz Oscura - 12'48"
Lucia Gironés
Lunes - 1'05"
Tmori
Business Class - 3'48"
Marcela Jardón
Escena VII Camiar - 6'49"
Empar Cubells
Red Feminine Pavilion, 2004

Jori Plas
Luz Oscura is part of a theatrical vision of the cinema.   Almost all my previous work is related to the theatre, from the lighting to the scenery, but especially with the theatrical photography. The main idea of the film was to create a claustrophobic environment based on minimal images and framings.  Finally we arrived to a space similar to what is name in theatre 'black box'. Undoubtedly we tried to move away from elements that diverted the attention in order to arrive to the essence of a man shut up in himself. Because Luz Oscura is not exclusively a political movie, but rather a spiritual movie.   Personally my idea was how to approach sensations related to the mystical Spanish tradition (Miguel de Molinos and his Quietimos ) and to the oriental mysticism (especially the Zen philosophy).  Luz Oscura speaks to any of us in opposition to the world or to the other.   I am the cell.

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